水浅养不住大鱼
Traditional form:
水淺養不住大魚
Pinyin (reading):
shuǐqiǎnyǎngbùzhùdàyú
Definitions:
- lit. shallow waters cannot harbor big fish (idiom)
- fig. ambitious, talented people cannot reach their full potential in a small organization
Characters:
- 水 - water, liquid, lotion, juice
- 浅 - shallow, superficial
- 养 - to raise, to rear, to bring up; to support
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 住 - to reside, to live at, to dwell, to lodge; to stop
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 鱼 - fish
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